“So this is the same group that decided homosexuality isn’t a disorder. Gotcha.”
With 35,000 members, the APA is a very diverse organization. Just like our country that has a few loud mouth liberal activists who pushed through an agenda I do not agree with, I don’t leave the country nor do I leave the organization which also has great opportunities for learning.
There is much good and also much not so good. It’s up to us to sort it out.
“There is much good and also much not so good. It’s up to us to sort it out.”
Many years ago I worked as a counselor in a private profit mental health hospital. All of the psychiatrists were good people 1st & excellent psychiatrists. This facility operated under a therapeutic milieu so everyone was involved & participated in staff meetings equally.
None of those Dr’s had anything good to say about the APA. All of them complained that politics mattered more than real research. Granted it’s anecdotal, but it’s why I don’t give the APA much consideration these days.
Add to that the terrible experiences I had with 1 psychiatrist as a patient who prescribed medicines that never worked. Another pulled me off prozac cold turkey, swore it wouldn’t be a problem despite me explaining what a horrible experience I had doing this years earlier.
Cannabis works for me. Psychiatry never did.